Happy Halloween

Happy Halloween from Princess Chloe.

The most beautiful girl in all the land...

Another Winner

I made it to Reed's basketball tournament just in time to see his first game.  

Since Reed is a defensive player, he was definitely on fire with 6 points.  

This is how sweaty you look after a 4 point win.

In his 2nd game he played great again and they won by 13 points.

When Jason texted me during their last game asking me how it was going I replied back with, 

"Reed just took a kid down and made him cry".

Reed really never does anything maliciously, but this particular incident looked pretty bad. The coach sat him after it happened and I thought Reed had gotten kicked out of the game.  He hadn't; and the coach only sat him because it was his 3rd foul. 

 Reed even apologized to the kid after he got up off the floor. (Which was after they had stopped the game and clapped for the kid as he hobbled off crying.)

Reed got back in the game and finished with only 4 fouls.  On foul number 4 the ref actually looked at me shook his head and laughed.  So I guess even the refs like watching Reed play.  

(I also think it's funny he knew he was mine, clearly I'm an "awesome" fan.)

They won that 3rd and final game which made them the tournament champions.

They were super excited.

Boo on the Boards

We left around 6:30 in the morning to get to Kyle's "Boo on the Boards" diving meet Saturday.

I was not expecting much from this meet.  Kyle was diving 13 and under JO (Junior Olympic) so I knew that would be tough going up against older kids.

In 3 meter (which is usually Kyle's best event) he had the lowest degree of difficulty points of any of the kids...which basically means he gets fewer points added to his score, so he has to dive his dives almost perfectly...which is pretty much what he did!

Kyle dove beautifully and was winning until the last round when his friend, Georgi, scored 8's on his hardest dive.  But we were thrilled with a 2nd place finish!  Plus, Georgi and Kyle were the only 10 year olds in the event.  All the other kids were 12

I had to leave after 3 meter to go to Reed's basketball tournament but Granny Sherry, Maw-Maw, and Paw-Paw were there to cheer him on.

Again in 1 meter, he and Georgi were the youngest.  I knew Kyle's degree of difficulty in 1 meter would make him more competitive, but I was still worried about diving against 12 year olds.

My plan was to keep up with Kyle's scores online, but it wasn't working. Sherry texted me saying "we can't hear or see the scores, but he looks good."  Unfortunately for us, lots of times the dives we think "look good" don't always get the numbers we thought they'd get.

By about the 4th round of dives the scores showed up, and it looked to me like Kyle would finish in the top 3.  According to Kyle there were lots of kids landing on their backs trying to land their doubles and twists, and one kid quit after the landing on his back in the first round.  

We were all super proud that he finished 2nd!  And even better, if this had been a Nationals qualifying meet, Kyle would have been the only 13 and under boy to qualify in both 1 and 3 meter! 

Kyle's got his pink shammy with him. 

 He always competes with the pink one because it's easy for us to spot to find him. 

It was a great double silver medal day.

Field Day

It was another busy weekend and it started on Friday with field day. 

It was their last one they'll have. 

They were totally not in to it, and neither was I.  I showed up before it started and took 2 pictures and left.  

Since you can't win, and there's no real competition, my kids just really don't care.

One of my friends sent me a video of Kyle hula-hooping, so I do have that. 

Last Call

The elementary school directories came out this week and we got a shout out ad to go in it.

I think mine was the best one in the whole book. 

A Big Finish

To finish off our big weekend this past week, we celebrated Granny Sherry's birthday on Sunday.

Sherry is such a huge help to me.  She drives Kyle to diving twice a week, and is always there to lend a hand picking up and taking the kids to and from wherever they need to be. 

We definitely all depend on her! 

We were happy to celebrate Granny at Benihanas on Sunday! 

Region Choir

JR had to be at school at 6:45 Saturday morning (the morning after the homecoming game) to go to Region Choir auditions.  I picked JR up about 1:30 in the afternoon and he said he thought he did even better than he did at the District auditions.

I told him that there was probably no way he would make Region Choir since he was a freshman, but we were proud of him for auditioning.  

While he was at the homecoming dance, one of the older choir girls told him he had made it.

He texted me and I could hardly believe it.  About 30 minutes later we got an email from the director confirming he had indeed made Region Choir.

  Only the top 12 kids get to advance to Area, so he won't advance any further, but we were absolutely thrilled he did so great...especially as a freshman!